Mary J. Whitfield is the research director at the Southern Sierra Research Station. She holds a B.S. degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology from U.C. Davis, and a M.S. degree in Biology from California State University, Chico. She has also taken post graduate classes at UCSB. She has over 25 years of fieldwork experience in the U.S. and has also worked in numerous Latin American countries. Mary has worked on a long-term breeding ecology study of the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher since 1989. Over the past several years, she expanded her Willow Flycatcher work to their wintering areas in Mexico, Central America and South America. She has been the research director of the Southern Sierra Research station since the station opened in 2000.
Mary Whitfield, Research Director
